Meh, in pretty much every company I've seen there are lots of entry level jobs to be done. Sure, you can ask an experienced developer to take care of them, and they will, but they'd rather apply their skills to more challenging tasks, or you could give them to a beginner, let them figure it out and run it by a more experienced dev to review.
We've done that with a guy that had been out of programming for half a decade but wanted back in. Within half a year he was a great asset. I believe it's more about whether the person is happy to learn something new, not so much what they already know.
Had someone respond to a job ad for a senior dev last week with 18 months experience. I was skeptical. I've never seen anyone develop senior level soft skills in that timeframe, and skill with requirements and design and so on seem to take a lot more time than 18 months.
Every new grad, intern I've worked with has done an amazing job hitting the ground running. They're not ready for "here's a big problem, please dream up a solution and get it out the door", but with reasonably laid out tasks they do a fantastic job working out the code and improving their technical chops along the way.
Juniors who are eager to learn are my favorite employees
>Every new grad, intern I've worked with has done an amazing job hitting the ground running.
You've been incredibly lucky. It's great when it happens, but it's certainly not the norm (speaking from experience at a well-known organization that hires a lot of interns).
> They’re just giving them the “senior” title ridiculously early in their careers.
Yes, companies are usually more eager to throw out titles than they are to throw out dollars. True seniors need to push much harder on the compensation aspect to give these companies a sense of scale, and ideally, start pushing back on working with 23 yr old "Sr Directors".
It's a substantial failure of the field that for most people, there isn't a lifelong career trajectory that doesn't require moving into management.
What no one REALLY wants are ENTRY LEVEL developers, who tend to be a net negative to productivity for roughly the first year or two.
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